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No one understands hyper-compression like Marvin Yagoda. His museum is sandwiched between halves of a shopping mall north of Detroit in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Inside he's packed dense masses of historical and modern arcade machines, sideshow wonders, fortune tellers, automatons, and curiosities. Marvin is a 60-something year old pharmacist, and Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum is a hobby that went out of control.
The museum contains items of magic, neon, antiques, posters, airplanes, robots, animation, and all sorts of odd and unusual coin operated games. The coin operated games are the main attraction, and range from the oldest gypsy fortune telling machine of the early 1900's, to the lastest video games. All the games are operational. Admission to Marvin's is FREE.
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Coolest, most unique place ever.
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Marvin's has some of the most amazing items I've ever seen! The musical MONSTER that plays actual instruments with a jukebox type interface is one of my favorites! I can't get enough of this place!
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Unbelievable is the understatement of the year as a descriptor for Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum. Wall-to-wall fun and interesting things on every wall, nook and cranny.
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Best place in Metro Detroit to play Pinball!
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Its a great place for kids and adults to go!!!
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Marvin's, the best stop in town!
Posted by: ljk3, 7/28/2008
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No other place like it!! Fun for all ages and a real treasure for Metro Detroit.
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I go to Marvin's at least once a year- I've taken all my friends there and they all love it just as much as I do!!
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This is by far one of my favorite places to "play" at! No matter how old you really are, you always come out feeling like a kid again. Marvin does a really good job keeping up with all of the newest games, and he is just so funny and friendly every time I stop in!
